Sayigh + Duman

Boutique Architectural Studio located in New York City. We specialize in unique residential, commercial projects.

Mission
We are excited to announce that Laith Sayigh and Koray Duman have joined forces to form a new architectural and multi disciplinary design office in New York City; Sayigh+Duman.
Sayigh+Duman is a contemporary architecture, multi disciplinary and cultural analysis office first developed by Koray Duman in 2004 under Studio Ur+Nod. In 2009, Laith Sayigh joined the office as a partner and the office took its current name Sayigh+Duman.
Studio Urnod is a design environment that is interested in achieving imaginative, intelligent, and creative solutions to its projects. Using the latest computer aided design techniques, graphic design and model building we aim to achieve solutions for each of our clients that are creative, build able and importantly delivered on time and on budget.
Fundamental to the office is an ability to communicate with and understand the unique requirements of every client and to create a solution that not only achieves a creative solution but one that also goes further in producing an outstanding result.
Also fundamental to the office is pursuit of sustainable design, in so the office is LEED certified and will be committed to bringing as many of its projects into LEED Certification. Making a change to the environment is paramount to us in the built environment today.
We are excited to continue contributing to the design environment that we live in today.

Company Overview
Koray Duman Earned a Master’s Degree from the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA in 2000 and a Bachelors Degree from Faculty of Architecture, METU, Turkey in 1998.Before forming Studio Ur+Nod, Koray was a project architect with Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects in Los Angeles from 19999 to 2004. Mr. Duman was also the principle architect in charge of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Oceanside Museum of Art and the Herman Studio. In New York, prior to establishing the studio, he was a project manager in Architecture InFormation in 2005 for high-end residential projects in New York. His work has been exhibited in the United States as well as internationally, and has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Interior Design Magazines. Koray Duman is a registered architect in the State of New York.

Laith Sayigh earned a Masters Degree from Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning in 1996 and a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from Kingston University, Surrey England in 1992. Before joining Studio Ur+Nod in 2009, Laith was a senior designer with Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York from 2007 to 2009. He was the senior designer working on various components of the Lincoln Center Public Spaces Redevelopment and Brown University Creative Arts Center. Prior to New York, he retained a private design practice in San Francisco from 2004 to 2007 for high-end residential projects and was a senior designer with SOM LLP in San Francisco from 2000 to 2004 for international large scale/ development projects. Prior to San Francisco, he was a designer with Sir Norman Foster and Partners in London from 1996 to 2000.